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CDF gives MPs flexibility — Derrick Smith
SMITH. the CDF is an excellent idea
MEMBER of Parliament and deputy leader of the governing Jamaica Labour Party Derrick Smith has defended the introduction of the Constituency Development Fund (CDF), stating that it gives MPs flexibility to provide services to their constituents at short notice....more
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Saturday, November 07, 2009
Mandeville, Manchester - Citing delays in the drafting of legislation governing DNA testing and fingerprinting of suspects as well as the video recording of witnesses' statements for criminal trials, Assistant Commissioner of Police Les Green says an inadequacy of political will and consensus is severely hampering Jamaica's anti-crime fight....more
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The 'G culture' destroying school, says principal
Saturday, November 07, 2009
PRINCIPAL of the Edith Dalton James High School, Ray Howell, has lashed out against the sale of badges to students bearing violent images, and said the culture is destroying the fabric of decency in schools....more 3 comments
Saturday, November 07, 2009
This father carries his son across a flooded playfield to prevent his feet from getting wet, as they leave a football match along Constant Spring Road in Kingston yesterday. (Photo: Garfield Robinson)...more 2 comments
NDM, G2K want Davies to resign as PAC chairman, opposition spokesman
Saturday, November 07, 2009
TWO political groups have called for the resignation of former minister of finance Dr Omar Davies as opposition spokesman of finance and chairman of Parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) over his handling of the employment contract for Derick Latibeaudiere, who was sacked as Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) governor last Friday....more 2 comments
Two held for murder of Sandra Supersad
Saturday, November 07, 2009
A man known by the alias 'Rodman', one of the major persons of interest in the murder of businesswoman Sandra Supersad on Wednesday night is now in police custody....more 1 comment
Saturday, November 07, 2009
SANTA Cruz, St Elizabeth - He admits he doesn't have "a dime yet" to finance his vision, but Agriculture Minister Dr Christopher Tufton says he is determined to "establish a modern state-of-the-art agricultural cluster" in the Hounslow area of South West St Elizabeth....more 1 comment
Sandals Resorts voted best Caribbean vacation destination... again
Saturday, November 07, 2009
OCHO RIOS, St Ann - Sandals Resorts International, for the 10th consecutive year, was again voted the best Caribbean vacation destination by Canadian travel agents in the Baxter Travel Media Agents Choice Awards for 2009....moreParish council committee raps health dept, NSWMA
Saturday, November 07, 2009
MONTEGO BAY, St James - Two key government agencies on Wednesday earned the ire of the St James Parish Council's Public Health Committee after representatives failed to show up at the monthly meeting....moreSaturday, November 07, 2009
JAMAICA was Thursday admitted as the 25th member of the prestigious Rio Group at a meeting of the hemispheric body's foreign ministers at the Rose Hall Resort and Spa in Montego Bay, St James....moreClub Hotel RIU workers to become unionised
Saturday, November 07, 2009
THE Ministry of Labour and Social Security has scheduled a representational rights poll for Monday at the all-inclusive Club Hotel RIU, Bloody Bay, Negril, part of the RIU chain....moreOld method of heart bypass better than 'off-pump'
Saturday, November 07, 2009
NEW YORK, USA (AP) - It seemed like a great idea - doing bypass surgery while the heart is still beating, sparing patients the complications that can come from going on a heart-lung machine. Now the first big test of this method has produced a surprise: Bypass has fewer problems and is more successful done the old way....moreCuba cuts back on rationed products
Saturday, November 07, 2009
HAVANA (AP) - Cuba has cut two staple foods from the monthly ration books that most islanders depend on, edging closer to a risky full elimination of the decades-old subsidies....moreMan confesses to killing lawyer, journalist
Saturday, November 07, 2009
MOSCOW, Russia (AP) - A suspect in the killing of a human rights lawyer and a journalist has confessed to the crime, his lawyer said yesterday....moreSaturday, November 07, 2009
BEIJING, China (AP) - A former gang leader who was the son of a high-ranking politician was executed this week in northern China after being convicted of murder, kidnapping, and extortion, state media reported....moreSpain refuses demand to free Somali pirates
Saturday, November 07, 2009
MADRID, Spain (AP) - Spain ruled out freeing two captured pirates as demanded by fellow brigands holding a Spanish trawler and 33 crew members off Somalia and reportedly threatening to start killing hostages....more
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